This whole deal to me is like a cruel joke that starts with; "If I pray hard enough will SQEX do things like SQ did back in the day?"

SQEX is just gonna keep being SQEX. If you wanna see what happened to SQ then look at Mistwalker. Is nice that the CEO is saying stuff SQ fans want to hear though.

Also, for as long as I've follow XV's development I think that part of the hype the game has behind it is gonna explode in people's faces. KHIII on the other hand I believe is gonna be fine no matter how long it takes to come out.

SQEX is just gonna keep being SQEX. If you wanna see what happened to SQ then look at Mistwalker.

This. It's as if all the people begging SE for a traditional RPG and complaining about FFXIII have never heard of Blue Dragon or Lost Odyssey. The throwback games are there; people are just looking in the wrong places.

"For example, in the past, when we developed console games with a worldwide premise, we lost our focus, and not only did they end up being games that werenâ€™t for the Japanese, but they ended up being incomplete titles that weren't even fit for a global audience."

"For the new games we'll be developing from this point on, while this may sound a bit extreme, weâ€™ve been talking about making them as heavy JRPGs. I believe that way, we can better focus on our target, which will also bring better results."

-Yosuke Matsuda, president of Square Enix

He's such a fanboy.

Square Enix being Square Enix isn't working. Of course they're going to look in new directions. Why are you trying to make that sound unreasonable?

Matsuda has said a bunch of nice things in the past with nothing to show. With SQEX is better to for hope things going fine rather than trust what they say, mainly because plans and priorities change over time for a company.

Nothing to show except massively turned-around financials and the continued success of FFXIV and the current success of Bravely Default?

As I remember Wada was responsable to make XIV 2.0 a priority in the company to make it a success. Bunch of project was said were cancelled because of that too.

BD was gonna make decent sales in Japan because the game was made for that territory in mind. The success of BD in the West was something SQEX Japan never saw coming, and decided not publish the game by themselves. I guess they underestimated the market for that kind of game over here.

BD was gonna make decent sales in Japan because the game was made for that territory in mind. The success of BD in the West was something SQEX Japan never saw coming, and decided not publish the game by themselves. I guess they underestimated the market for that kind of game over here.

I wonder if they never take notice of what other publishers are doing. There are multiple smaller publishers who survive by releasing niche Japanese stuff and do just fine. They don't have to worry when one of their games doesn't sell 5 million copies, nope, when a title sells 200.000 copies the first month they celebrate with cake. And heck, Nintendo (well, mostly Nintendo of Europe) is pretending it's the 90s all over again and releasing third party JRPG's.

Oh well, I guess whatever money they're making isn't good enough for Squeenix.

As for KH3 and FFXV, wake me up when those are out. There is no way I'm boarding that hype train.

Why can't Squeenix be like smaller publishers that are all like: hey, we're making this game and we're almost done. It'll be out in three months. Here's some screenshots and a trailer of two. Thanks for listening!

Oh, yeah, wait. It's because they pour millions and millions and millions into their projects. If they don't start shoving it in our faces now, we won't start believing this is something amazing we should be looking forward to for years. If we don't believe, we won't pre-order and if we don't pre-order, there won't be x miljoen sold the first month and the company will enter financial crisis mode and start pooping out unneeded sequels.

Why can't Squeenix be like smaller publishers that are all like: hey, we're making this game and we're almost done. It'll be out in three months. Here's some screenshots and a trailer of two. Thanks for listening!

Oh, yeah, wait. It's because they pour millions and millions and millions into their projects. If they don't start shoving it in our faces now, we won't start believing this is something amazing we should be looking forward to for years. If we don't believe, we won't pre-order and if we don't pre-order, there won't be x miljoen sold the first month and the company will enter financial crisis mode and start pooping out unneeded sequels.

S-E is particularly weird about this. There are other "triple A" publishers who don't seem to have this problem so much...

I remember there was an interview after Type-0 came out where they admitted they didn't really start working on it until two years after the first trailer. It was just a vague concept up until that point. It's not really clear what the situation with XV was when it was first announced, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was similar...

BD was gonna make decent sales in Japan because the game was made for that territory in mind. The success of BD in the West was something SQEX Japan never saw coming, and decided not publish the game by themselves. I guess they underestimated the market for that kind of game over here.

I wonder if they never take notice of what other publishers are doing. There are multiple smaller publishers who survive by releasing niche Japanese stuff and do just fine. They don't have to worry when one of their games doesn't sell 5 million copies, nope, when a title sells 200.000 copies the first month they celebrate with cake. And heck, Nintendo (well, mostly Nintendo of Europe) is pretending it's the 90s all over again and releasing third party JRPG's.

Oh well, I guess whatever money they're making isn't good enough for Squeenix.

As for KH3 and FFXV, wake me up when those are out. There is no way I'm boarding that hype train.

Why can't Squeenix be like smaller publishers that are all like: hey, we're making this game and we're almost done. It'll be out in three months. Here's some screenshots and a trailer of two. Thanks for listening!

Oh, yeah, wait. It's because they pour millions and millions and millions into their projects. If they don't start shoving it in our faces now, we won't start believing this is something amazing we should be looking forward to for years. If we don't believe, we won't pre-order and if we don't pre-order, there won't be x miljoen sold the first month and the company will enter financial crisis mode and start pooping out unneeded sequels.

Except that I slipped into Dutch for a second. 'Miljoen'? Seriously, Tomara? Dutch isn't even that suitable for angry rants...

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I remember there was an interview after Type-0 came out where they admitted they didn't really start working on it until two years after the first trailer. It was just a vague concept up until that point. It's not really clear what the situation with XV was when it was first announced, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was similar...

XV is now basically announced-but-never-actually-made Final Fantasy XIII Versus-stuff with a different title, so I suppose they're a little further along than usual. There was some actual gameplay in the latest trailers. Of course, this doesn't mean the game is anywhere near complete, but atleast they seem to have passed the 'here's some fancy smancy FMV, we'll attach and actual game to it someday' phase.

Which isn't actually all that hard when the skeleton of the game has been development hell for 5+ years <_<

Except that I slipped into Dutch for a second. 'Miljoen'? Seriously, Tomara? Dutch isn't even that suitable for angry rants...

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I remember there was an interview after Type-0 came out where they admitted they didn't really start working on it until two years after the first trailer. It was just a vague concept up until that point. It's not really clear what the situation with XV was when it was first announced, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was similar...

XV is now basically announced-but-never-actually-made Final Fantasy XIII Versus-stuff with a different title, so I suppose they're a little further along than usual. There was some actual gameplay in the latest trailers. Of course, this doesn't mean the game is anywhere near complete, but atleast they seem to have passed the 'here's some fancy smancy FMV, we'll attach and actual game to it someday' phase.

Which isn't actually all that hard when the skeleton of the game has been development hell for 5+ years <_<

Unlike KH3 where any idiot could see the "gameplay" bits were just empty shells slapped together quickly for the sake of a trailer.